Starbox allows you to easily create all kinds of rating boxes using just one PNG image. The library is build on top of the Prototype javascript framework. For some extra effects you can add Scriptaculous as well. Check the demos to see what Starbox is all about and read on for more information on how to customize your own Starboxes. Starbox has the following main features.
- Rerating allows you to adjust your previous rating.
- You can easily save your rating with Ajax using the build in callback.
- Improvements to the CSS model, allowing you to style the Starbox based on status (hover, rated and locked).
- Better seperation of Javascript, CSS and images.
- A ghosting bar that tracks your average.
- Custom event ‘starbox:rated’ is fired when your rate.
- Batched building of Starboxes based on cached overlay images.
Requirements: IE6+, Firefox 1.5.x+, Opera9.x+, Safari, Konqueror
Demo: http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/starbox/
License: License Free
One month ago, we celebrated our 3,000 readers blog milestone and gave away 2 custom logo designs. Now, we are celebrating our new blog milestone – 4,000 readers. We love giving stuff away to our readers, this time we managed to get some really cool stuff from one of the best icon stores – Icon Drawer.
Professional look of your software or website is quite important for the success. Icon Drawer provides us some high quality royalty-free icons for your software, web site, GUI design or presentations. They have done some excellent custom icons for Mac OS X and few Win XP applications as well. Have a look at their portfolio , you will be amazed by the quality of the icons. Here are some of the custom icons they have made for their clients.
Icon Drawer agreed to offer 3 copies of “Classic Pack” icon sets (Totol: $252) which contains 140 high quality icons for toolbar, web sites and presentations to readers of WebAppers. All icon sizes are 48×48, 32×32, 24×24, 16×16 with 4 different icon formats: ICNS, TIF, PNG, Win XP ICO.
To participate is Easy. You can leave a comment or publish a post about this event.
*You can do both.
I will pick 1 Lucky Winner from people who left a comment under this post about interesting thing(s) at Christmas.
I will also pick 2 other Lucky Winners from people who published a post about this event on their websites / blogs.
Deadline of this event on 31 Dec 2007.
Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.
Plug and play style. Download the uni-form.zip and you’re pretty much all set! It is encouraged to edit css properties only in the uni-form.css file, so you can easily upgrade to the newer versions as they come along by copying over the old copy of the uni-form-generic.css.
Requirements: IE6+, Firefox 1.5.x+, Opera9.x+, Safari, Konqueror
Demo: http://dnevnikeklektika.com/uni-form/
License: Creative Commons License
FreelanceSwitch which has over 17,000 readers, has released their first FreelanceSwitch book which covers everything from getting started to expanding your business. The book is called How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer which is written by Collis & Cyan Ta’eed – the founders of the site – it’s packed with new information, advice and insights not covered on the blog.
The book with 212 Pages of Expert Freelancing Advices is available now for $29 only.
Source: Grab Your Copy Now
IT Mill Toolkit is an open-source user interface framework, prividing widgets and tools for the development of high-quality web applications. You can create stunning Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) without worrying about incompatibilities of web browsers, DOM or JavaScript by using standard Java tools. Use traditional OOP methods to build web applications that look good and feel right.
Effortless RIA Development
- Build Rich Internet Applications using Java language utilizing OO methods: inheritance and composition.
- Dozens of AJAX-enabled widgets for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that work with all major browsers.
- No need to learn new web technologies such as JavaScript, DOM, taglibs, etc.
- Secure server-side programming model keeps your application data secured from JavaScript threats
- Extend and build your own user interface components using Google Web Toolkit – again in Java language.
- Pluggable look and feel using standard CSS: re-brand whole applications fast – in just a few hours.
- Compatible with all standard Java application servers, including JBoss, WebLogic and WebSphere and Oracle.
- Wide range of supported browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Requirements: Java versions: 1.4, 5 and 6
Demo: http://www.itmill.com/itmill-toolkit/demos.htm
License: Apache 2.0 License
Mosso provides web designers and developers with reliable hosting services. Fast and reliable connections to Mosso-hosted websites are achieved because the Company has the support of Rackspace Managed Hosting, an industry leader that currently manages 30,000+ servers for customers all over the world.
To stand out from other hosting companies, Mosso offers a unique hosting solution called Hosting System. It is advanced, enterprise-level hosting technology developed by Mosso that absolutely outweighs running your own server and with less cost. With $100/month, you can enjoy the following features.
80GB Storage Space with 2,000GB Bandwidth
Mosso offers you 80GB Storage Space with unbeatable 2,000GB of monthly bandwidth. You can have as many sites, email addresses and databases as you like.
Pretty and Easy to Use Control Panel
You can setup and manage your websites easily with powerful control panel. If you provide hosting solutions to your clients, they will have their own control panel as well.
Mixture of Windows and Linux TrueHybrid Technology
You can run both Linux technology (PHP and MySQL) and Windows Technology (ASP and .NET) on the same website.
Backup Your Backups
Mosso eliminates single point of failure with RAID technology. They backup your backups and backup their backups as well. There is no need for you to worry about data lost.
To set up and get the server running at Mosso is within minutes. If you are going to provide web design and hosting solutions, you may transfer the support, tedious billing & invoicing jobs of your clients to Mosso at very competitive cost. Mosso will do all these hassle as follows for you.
24-hour Phone and Chat Support
You can choose to outsource the support service for some or all of your domains. It includes 24-hour phone and chat support for $3/month per supported domain only.
Client Billing and Invoicing
You may pick whom you would like to bill and how much you would like to charge. Mosso will collect the fees from your customers and make ACH deposit each month into your back account. It cost only $2 or 4% of the transaction.
One more interesting thing
Mosso is partnering with Native Energy, and their goals are to make their hosting operation completely carbon neutral and to invest in projects that bring more clean energy into the power grid. You can view more details on Native Energy’s website. You can’t really go wrong with Mosso, because they know what to do for mankind. ïŠ
To be honest, I am really happy with the hosting solution Mosso provides when I am writing this review. It is really tempting to switch WebAppers hosting to Mosso especially when I intend to develop some more blogs/websites soon. If I plan to join the web design business, Mosso will be one of my picks for web hosting. Much resource (manpower and money) will be saved as I would let Mosso to deal with customer support and related matters. Hoping Mosso can sponsor the hosting for WebAppers. ; )
All professional web developers and web designers on WebAppers, please vote for your favorite Social News and Social Bookmarking, and Start Pages for the Open Web Awards, a distributed contest to find the best sites on the web. The top three sites in these categories will proceed to the final round starting December 17th, and there will be an awards ceremony at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco on January 10th, 2008.
Gerard Ferrandez has created a Photo 3D Gallery. The interactive gallery is written in Javascript which is very user friendly. The photos will move according to your mouse movement. You can click on any pictures to zoom in and out. Now we have one more choice for embedding a photo gallery in your projects.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/
License: License Free
AW/Systems is offering a full set of professionally designed icons for web applications for all ASP.NET developers for free! There are more than 300 awsome icons in our package, and welcome you to use them in your web applications, both personal and commercial. The only thing they ask is that you put a link to aspneticons.com somewhere in your application. The icons look very nice and I can see them very useful for ASP.NET developers. It is really a shame that these icons are exclusively for the ASP.NET community.
Requirements: Backlink Required
Demo: http://www.aspneticons.com/
License: License Free
We have been waiting so long for Google Chart API. Google has finally released Google Charts API, which returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.
You can include a Chart API image in a webpage by embedding a URL within an <img> tag. When the webpage is displayed in a browser the Chart API renders the image within the page.
The chart above is generated dynamically and displayed in your browser with the following code.
<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:hW&chs=480x150&chl=Large Portion|Small Portion">
Go and check out the developer’s guide of Google Chart API now.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
License: License Free
